Older versions have rmtree but not remove_tree. The one-argument forms
of these are equivalent, so replace remove_tree with rmtree. This allows
the tests to be run on oldish Msys systems.
pg_xlog is often a symlink, typically to a different filesystem. Don't
get confused and comlain about by that, and just always pretend that it's a
normal directory, even if it's really a symlink.
Also add a test case for this.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Since commit 01f6bb4b2, TestLib.pm has exported path to tmp_check directory,
so let's use that also for the pg_rewind test clusters etc.
Also, in master, the $tempdir_short variable has not been used since commit
13d856e17, which moved the initdb-running code to TestLib.pm.
Backpatch to 9.5.
On Windows, use listen_address=127.0.0.1 to allow TCP connections. We were
already using "pg_regress --config-auth" to set up HBA appropriately. The
standard_initdb helper function now sets up the server's
unix_socket_directories or listen_addresses in the config file, so that
they don't need to be specified in the pg_ctl command line anymore. That
way, the pg_ctl invocations in test programs don't need to differ between
Windows and Unix.
Add another helper function to configure the server's pg_hba.conf to allow
replication connections. The configuration is done similarly to "pg_regress
--config-auth": trust on domain sockets on Unix, and SSPI authentication on
Windows.
Replace calls to "cat" and "touch" programs with built-in perl code, as
those programs don't normally exist on Windows.
Add instructions in the docs on how to install IPC::Run on Windows. Adjust
vcregress.pl to not replace PERL5LIB completely in vcregress.pl, because
otherwise cannot install IPC::Run in a non-standard location easily.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Noah Misch, some additional tweaking by me.
Create a log file for each test run. Stdout and stderr of the test script,
as well as any subprocesses run as part of the test, are redirected to
the log file. This makes it a lot easier to debug test failures. Also print
the test output (ok 12 - ... messages) to the log file, and the command
line of any external programs executed with the system_or_bail and run_log
functions. This makes it a lot easier to debug failing tests.
Modify some of the pg_ctl and other command invocations to not use 'silent'
or 'quiet' options, and don't redirect output to /dev/null, so that you get
all the information in the log instead.
In the passing, construct some command lines in a way that works if $tempdir
contains quote-characters. I haven't systematically gone through all of
them or tested that, so I don't know if this is enough to make that work.
pg_rewind tests had a custom mechanism for creating a similar log file. Use
the new generic facility instead.
Michael Paquier and me.
pg_rewind looks at the control file to determine the server's timeline. If
the standby performs a "fast promotion", the timeline ID in the control
file is not updated until the next checkpoint. The startup process requests
a checkpoint immediately after promotion, so this is unlikely to be an
issue in the real world, but the regression suite ran pg_rewind so quickly
after promotion that the checkpoint had not yet completed.
Reported by Stephen Frost
There were a couple of hard-coded sleeps in the tests: to wait for standby
to catch up with master, and to wait for promotion with "pg_ctl promote"
to complete. Instead of a fixed, hard-coded sleep, poll the server with a
query once a second. This isn't ideal either, and I wish we had a better
solution for real-world applications too, but this should fix the
immediate problem.
Patch by Michael Paquier, with some editing by me.
Now that the test servers are initialized twice in each .pl script,
the single END block is not enough to stop them. Add a new clean_rewind_test
function that is called at the end of each test.
Michael Paquier
Should call just "pg_rewind", instead of "./pg_rewind". The tests are called
so that PATH contains the temporariy installation bin dir.
Per report from Alvaro Herrera
* Don't pass arguments to prove, since that's not supported on perl 5.8
which is the minimum version supported by the TAP tests. Refactor the
test files themselves to run the tests twice, in both local and remote mode.
* Use eq rather than == for string comparison. This thinko caused the remote
versions of the tests to never run.
* Add "use strict" and "use warnings", and fix warnings that that produced.
* Increase the delay after standby promotion, to make the tests more robust.
* In remote mode, the connection string to the promoted standby was
incorrect, leading to connection errors.
Patch by Michael Paquier, to address Peter Eisentraut's report.
Earlier versions of this tool were available (and still are) on github.
Thanks to Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Peter Eisentraut, Amit Kapila,
and Satoshi Nagayasu for review.
